Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning crime, the fat Mayor said, as he relaxed in bedroom slippers and short-sleeved, open-necked sport shirt in his hotel suite: "Sure, we have crime here. We always will have crime. Chicago is just like any other big city. You can get a man's arm broken for so much, a leg for so much, or beaten up for so much. Just like New York or any other big city-excepting we print our crime here and they...
Summer is indeed "a-cuminage in". There is no surer sign of it than the advent of the spring vacation-now for once the Easter vacation-and the completion of the first batch of April hours. O custom, what crime are committed in thy name! And then yesterday afternoon, as the Vagabond was wandering along the sylvan banks of the limpid, winding Charles-somewhere up near Watertown, just this side of the abattoir-wandering be it said with no ulterior purpose but perhaps with a lurking desire to see a burnished dove and prove the business about the newer iris...
...addition to these achievements, you have signalized in fitting manner the defeat of the proposal to give the Student Council authority to enforce good manners upon you; stolen a march on the Lampoon; and, if the last few, numbers of the Crime have received proper circulation. You have probably demonstrated to all the world that the day is past when Harvard men were gentlemen. With all due applause. Wendell F. Fogg...
...Republican retribution fund:* "I believe the [Sinclair] conspiracy was formed in the city of Chicago at the convention in 1920 by a few men unbeknown to the party itself, unbeknown to the rank and file, but by men who under cover of party protection were consummating a crime...
...editors, Raymond E. ("Spike") Delaney,* had been a police reporter on the Bridgeport Telegram. He would rob a house and return to police headquarters, hear of the same robbery, cover the story. He would re-enter the house through the front door, give the policeman suggestions concerning the crime, return to his typewriter and write a florid story. He was a good friend, almost an assistant, of Bridgeport bluecoats. When a New Haven merchant suspected him of selling stolen jewels and telephoned for a Bridgeport policeman to come down, the policeman arrived to greet Mr. Delaney like a long-lost...